Crassispira terebra is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
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| Shells of Crassispira terebra (specimens at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Crassispira |
| Species: | C. terebra
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| Crassispira terebra (de Basterot, 1825)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 28 mm. William Swainson, an English malacologist, published a book in 1840 in which he describes this genus of molluscs as having a "shell tuberculated", being "club-shaped" and its "aperture widest in the middle."[2]
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Distribution
editFossils have been found in Oligocene strata in Aquitaine, France.
References
edit- ^ MNHN, Paris: Crassispira terebra
- ^ Swainson, William; Swainson, William; Berry, S. Stillman (1840). Treatise on Malacology; or, the natural classification of shells and shell fish. By William Swainson ... London: Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans [etc.]
- Basterot, B. de. Description géologique du Bassin Tertiaire du Sud-Ouest de la France: Mémoires de la Sociéte d'histoire naturelle de Paris. 1825.
- Lozouet (P.), 2017 Les Conoidea de l’Oligocène supérieur (Chattien) du bassin de l’Adour (Sud-Ouest de la France). Cossmanniana, t. 19, p. 1-179
External links
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